Considering only one man
broke his leg and 32 people suffered from minor injuries during the Airbus A380 super jumbo jet evacuation test and
exercise in Hamburg, Germany the plane
passed its test. Wow! We’ve been hearing about this jumbo jet for ages it seems and with the success of this test
it gets one step closer to commercial service. The evacuation of 853 people and 20 crew in the emergency drill took
place in 80 seconds, meaning everyone got out the plane in 80 seconds and was under tight supervision of the
European certification authority and the a representative of the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority. When you think
about it, that is really impressive though it makes me wonder what the full test conditions are like? I’m sure the
results are quite different in (whispers) real deal emergency situations.
via Xinhuanet